Feeling Younger May Help You Live Longer
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Polka Dot Images/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Researchers in England say that feeling younger may actual help you live longer.
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, researchers looked at data from about 6,000 participants aged 52 years old or older. In the hopes of gauging the relationship between age and perceived age — or the age the participants “felt” they were.
Participants were part of the study for eight years, and researchers say those who felt younger than their actual age had a mortality rate of 14.3 percent. Comparatively, those who felt their actual age had a mortality rate of 18.5 percent, while those who felt older had a mortality rate of 24.6 percent.
Even when correcting for baseline health and other potentially contributing factors, subjects who felt older than their actual age were at significantly higher risk of death than those who felt younger.
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